ShortList

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ShortList is a free weekly magazine published in the United Kingdom, which launched on 20 September 2007. The magazine has the biggest circulation of any men's lifestyle magazine in Britain with Martin Robinson as its editor. Mike Soutar, former editorial director of IPC Media, editor of FHM in the UK and US Maxim, is the CEO. Source

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The Smiths self-titled debut was their opening statement of intent, and it’s hard to believe that it was released more than three decades ago, on 20th February 1984. It endured a difficult birth, with rececordings, limited budgets and all the rest, yet still emerged as a fully-fledged classic, loved the world over to this day.We’ve scoured the archives to find 20 pieces of trivia that you may not know about the creation, the content and the critical reception to this classic record.

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I, what with being a human being and all, like dinosaurs. I have liked dinosaurs for a very long time - as soon as I found out what they were, essentially. Oh, giant monsters will big sharp teeth that fight each other? Hmmmmm, I wonder if I will like these creatures that have seemingly been designed solely to please children. YES, yes I will, and yes I did, and yes I do.

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Then, things like avocado proposals come into my consciousness, and equilibrium returns. I can also spend the weekend doing nothing, watching whatever I want. I don’t at any point, ever, have to pay National Rail £90 to traipse to some far flung part of the country to a partner’s relative’s 90th birthday party. But, hark! I hear you cry (real tears) what is an avocado proposal? Well it’s like a real proposal, of marriage, that lots of people do, but it’s done by twats.

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You can never please everyone. Sure, you have to be mindful of what it is people want, but equally you can’t do things just to please them. In Hollywood, you have to go into every idea knowing that some people will be taken by it and other people will be offended by it. You want to please as many people as you can, but the master you’re serving is the story itself. Any time you endeavour to tell a story, you can be pretty sure you’ll annoy some people.

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Netflix always has a strong batch of TV and films heading to its streaming service each month - but this time, there’s some particularly interesting stuff on offer. There’s everything from classic Oscar-winning thrillers like Misery to Ricky Gervais’ latest stand-up. So take a gander at the list below and find something to devour this March…

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“For launch, your nose is pointed at the sky. The commander climbs into the left seat (1), the pilot the right (2). Behind them sit mission specialists one and two, on the right and left respectively. “Between the knees are the control column joysticks (3 & 4). You can move them forward and back to tip the shuttle nose up and down. Left and right lowers and raises the wings. You can also twist the column, yawing you sideways. “To fly, you type instructions into the keyboard panel (5).

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As a fried chicken lover, this has been a seriously tough week. I love few things as much as I love fried chicken and the king amongst chickens has always been the Colonel, the spiritual head of Kentucky Fried Chicken. I even once got to go ‘behind the scenes’ and create my own chicken. What a day that was. But this week has witnessed scenes of panic across the land as distribution problems meant that stores were running out of chicken and being forced to close.

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Oh Vine, you lived your life like a candle in the wind, flickering brightly, but briefly. It was founded back in June 2012 before Twitter acquired it just four months later - a perfect match since, like its parent company (well, until recently), it was all about working within very short limits, with users having just six seconds to make their point.

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Greenpeace replied and set the bar at 200k retweets, at which point Harbour pleaded with his followers. He hit the target in just five hours, and lo, the trip was set. Yesterday he posted a series of videos of himself in the Antarctic surrounded by his beloved ‘guins, and in between serious messages about saving the planet, danced with (at) them just like Chief Hopper did in his heart warming scene in the Netflix hit. So now you can’t feel sad about anything for at least a week.

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Tinder is good, I think, because you can shag on it, and you can’t say that about most apps, unless of course you load up the Nationwide banking app on your phone and literally shag on top it. Tinder is the shagging app, though - it’s for shagging. But there’s a lot of competition on it, ain’t there? Lots and lots of people on Tinder, all trying to snog each other, all stopping you from snogging, because your profile is bad.

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